5/15/08: Conservation Biologist M.A. Sanjayan

A young Sri Lankan boy prepares a monkey as \"bush meat\" for his meal.

Photo by Sanjayan, The Nature Conservancy

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – Today on RadioWest the conservation biologist M.A. Sanjayan will join us. He's spent his professional life fighting for the concept of biodiversity, but he's pushing the environmental community to define the term in a broader way. Sanjayan is trying to get more racial diversity within the movement and he's integrating the fight for conservation with the struggle against global poverty. He says the common denominator is that need to connect with nature.